The 1734 Tradition is a form of
traditional witchcraft
Traditional witchcraft is a term used by certain esotericists who regard their practices as forms of witchcraft. The unifying feature of these religious movements is the attempt to differentiate themselves from the modern Pagan new religious mov ...
founded by the American
Joseph Bearwalker Wilson
Joseph Bearwalker Wilson (1942–2004) was a shaman and witch, founder of the 1734 Tradition of witchcraft, the Toteg Tribe, Metista, and a founding member of the Covenant of the Goddess.
Wilson was born December 11, 1942 and raised just inside t ...
in 1973, after developing it since 1964. It is largely based upon the teachings he received from an English traditional witch named
Robert Cochrane, the founder of
Cochrane's Craft
Cochrane's Craft, which is also known as Cochranianism, is a form of traditional witchcraft founded in 1951 by the English witch Robert Cochrane, who himself claimed to have been taught in the tradition by some of his elderly family members, a c ...
, and from Ruth Wynn-Owen, whom he called the matriarch of Y Plant Bran ("the child of
Bran
Bran, also known as miller's bran, is the hard outer layers of Cereal, cereal grain. It consists of the combined aleurone and pericarp. Corn (maize) bran also includes the pedicel (tip cap). Along with cereal germ, germ, it is an integral pa ...
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References
External links
1734 Witchcraft: The Authentic Method of Robert Cochrane and Joseph Bearwalker Wilson
{{Contemporary witchcraft
Modern witchcraft
Wicca in the United States
1970s in modern paganism